tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60987022009-02-20T23:46:42.966-08:00"Pleasure or Happiness is the Sole or Chief Good in Life"Sleepless in San Franciscohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05532952955706278994noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6098702.post-1092716653486459732004-08-16T21:22:00.000-07:002004-08-19T13:44:32.553-07:00

I'm now using a new (and better) blog site provider: http://hedonistix.blogs.com/ Bookmark that site and I look forward to seeing you all over there. --H

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OK, the beginning of another (good) new week. We have been enjoying the Olympic games for the last couple of days, mostly swimming and gymnastics (the Mrs. is Romanian, so I think it's pretty much understandable). One other thing that really makes me pumped up about the Olympics is - no, NOT the crybabies of the US Basketball team, which got spanked by Puerto Rico yesterday - but the Iraqi team;

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From The Opening Ceremony of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece http://www.athens2004.com/en/ With a magical Opening Ceremony, Athens welcomed the best athletes from around the globe for the Olympic Games, which returned home. Connecting symbolically the Ancient Olympia Stadium with the Athens Olympic Stadium, the beginning of the Opening Ceremony bridged 3,000 years of Olympic Games

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Summer Olympic games 2004 in Athens, Greece is starting today August 13, 2004. Thought I need to put this article on this event here on the blog. http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0813/p18s01-hfcs.html 'The healing of the nations' Since their inauguration in 1896, the modern Olympic Games have mirrored the times in which they have been held. World wars canceled the Games in 1916, 1940, and 1944.

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Today is Friday the 13th of August 2004 and coincidentally this is my 13th post on this blog. Before going any further, I got to start by stating that I'm a newcomer in blogosphere (I set this up in November 2003 but never did anything until last week). I think blogs have reached the point to where some are actually comparing them with "medias" or "journalism". This is a take from my fellow

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Thought this is an interesting article to share. Don't think I can make any comments on this one. http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3064790 After Babel, a new common tongue Aug 5th 2004 RIGA From The Economist print edition It turns out to be English IN THE 17th century, educated people across central Europe could still communicate with each other in Latin. By

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I have always been 'amused' by the recent popular trend of "Americans are more polarized today than ever" or "America is divided into two today more than ever" and have actually just discussed about this subject with a friend couple days ago, before I saw the below article. I also have never believed that America today is more or less divided than ever before and have always believed that the

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Having lived in San Francisco for almost 6 years now, I actually am not too familiar with some of the usual tourist-y spots and am glad that I found this article which is an excellent recap of what to do/to eat/to visit in San Francisco. Hope it can be useful for SF virgins. Feel free to post questions or comment here or e-mail me for various Q&As related to the city. http://www.sfgate.com/

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I admittingly do not know a lot about "hedge funds". It is included in the CFA curriculum under the sub topic of "Alternative Investments" (together with "real estate investments" and "commodity investments" among others). Other than that, I do have some friends who work for "hedge funds" and regularly read "Institutional Investor" magazine, a monthly magazine on hedge funds, investments and

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As a person who likes to observe things and who have had experienced living/working for organizations based in the US, Asia and Europe, the issue of the quantity of working hours always gets me interested. Additionally, my 2 sisters live/work in Australia, making it the 4th subject of comparisons. It is widely believed that American workers work too long of hours ("live to work") and do not have

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The below is excerpted and slightly edited from one of my posts at the Motley Fool discussion boards. Comments (especially from foreigners outside the U.S.) would be very much appreciated. ----%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%-%---- My recollection since I was a kid growing up outside the US (late 70s and 80s) was the perception of the US like to be the 'police of the world' and I was always rooting against the

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As I’m writing this post, I am (nervously) waiting for the result of my level III CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) exam that I took last June. The following are links to the CFA Institute as the body for CFA Charterholders and Candidates and the CFA program itself: http://www.cfainstitute.org/ http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprogram/ When I was studying for level III (I started about January

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As a short intro., most who know me already know how much I love football (soccer) and how much I love the Oranje Dutch National team. Here are some links that I can share about the sweetest memories of my favorite team: When we won EURO 1988: http://www.euro2004.com/history/Year=1988/ Final match against the USSR: http://www.euro2004.com/History/Year=1988/round=210/Match=22/index.html When

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Contrary to other bloggers (I think), I actually prefer to listen/read more than to talk/write. This is one subject that I'm very curious to read about. Basically, I'd appreciate if you can state where you reside, your citizenship, how much are you following (or not following) the US Presidential Election this or any other previous year, and why? I will surely try my best to respond, of course

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Here are some of buddies of mine who have already stamped their existence in blogoshphere. Strangely enough, I met both of them through the Motley Fool discussion boards (eerrr, I have NOT physically met one of them, actually ... and another strangely, he is the one who lives close to me). The Bowie-fan-space-midi music-geek-Moon: http://moonagewebdream.blogspot.com/ The Software

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Hi: I used to post on the "Current Events" board at the Motley Fool discussion boards: http://boards.fool.com/Index.aspx After slightly less than 3 years participating on that board, I decided to call it quits and create this blog site instead. The Motley Fool has probably the best-designed discussion boards separated by Investing and non-Investing topics of participants' choices. Some of its

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Welcome to 'Cafe HedonistiX'. We will use this site for discussions about: economy, finance, politics, sports, movies, music, and any other nonsense Additionally, I also will put some personal journals Relax and enjoy!

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